Gas-producer.



'n ammi-'sum1' 1 A /rra inve-YQ PATENT@ Nov. la, 1906. 1..'BoUTILL1ER.

GAS PRUDUGER.v APPLICATION FILED APB. 5'. 1.904.

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retort directly heated bythe furnacepand `'adapted 'to receive-at its lower extremity and' little above'the said grate, and it communilayer.V

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' timed, which-.isthen conveyed to. thegas er1-` certain- -new and use ul. Improvements -in .August 25, 1903, October 30,1903, havebeen producers ters wintended A more particularly for gasengines, v-and 'has for its .object to'provide an4 improved ap aratus enabling'poo'r gas'tob'e 'ing from the 'distillation effected in the said 5' ,and then through a secon brought to a' very high temperature, said from, tar ry products and c'o perate to the production of thepoor gas in t UNrrnD STATES PATENT "OFFICE Louis BUTILLIER;

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ratetaanov: 11s,- moe.

Be itknown that I, LoUrs'BoUrrLLrER, a.

citizen of the-French 'Re u blic', residing Paris, in the said Re ub ic, haveinvented Gas-Producers for Poor -Gas Free' from,- Tarry;' --Matters,- (for which I'have obtained a' patent in France, No. 331,014, bearing date April 7, 1903, to which patents of4 additions, respectively `numbered 2,122, 2,192, `and 2,351, and bearing ldate August 14, 1903,

adjoi'ned,) of'iwhichlthe following is a speciif 'This invention relates' to improved. 'gas- Afor poor gas free'iom-.tarrymate 'obtained' pe ectly freed rorntany matters, while using anyv combustible .containingvolatile terry' products.

My" roved apparatusincludes. a verticalV through suitable 'mechanical means 'the rawv combustible ,to be fused for V feeding the .apparatus.,` The said retort 'is established'- 1nl .the center of the furnace; butitis limited to the neighborhood of the grate ofthe latter, a .Y

'eates with the chamber proper onlyfat levelin order to foroe'the `ta-rry vapors aris-;,

retort toiirst pass -througha layeror bed 'of incandescent combustible l'ing onthegrate layer or'bed o combustible free from tarryproducts and second -layer' covering the aforesaid first' vapors arising from :tliedistillation' of the-raw combustible are thus completely free e chamber of theproducer; upper pipe Vestablished at a suitable point ofthe'apparatus insuresthe drawing'out of thejpoor gas thus mam'ifac -gineori'notbr in such 'a state of urity as to avoidany fouling of the .arts o th". latter.- The'raw. combustible. fe linto the retort .is thuefieed from the tarr'y products th'at it ta'ins by dimmingthese products passage' throughthe retort, and the fur.-

' extends upf-:t0 ,the The 'summit'-.oi4 said 'tight-covenO, h" to 'be 'closed' hermeti'ca'lly.. by; 'a`- cap 13,-'

pressed downby'siiitable screw-yoke 15.

`ljslie'd'th'e essential element of the. apI

'communicates with a' loeatedaroundsaid retort is above specified:

and steam. isintroduced 'in the chamber'v propercfthe furnace as ordinarily' useding the gaz'ogenesof this kind in order toinsurej the combustion-and 'the productionqof'a poor gas. erfectly free from tarry products` ;-f I

In the rawings, Figure lis a sectionalelevationof theapparatusforming the.s ubjec t'V Aofthe present invention, Fig; 2 is' a sectional elevation of anapparatusfsimilar to that shownl inFig, 1;,

Referring tothe accompanying drawings,

it will besejen that the improvedap aratuszisj composed of' a-'Inetallic casin avinga 1 bottom plate 2, which is establishbdbel'ow' 'a l grate 6, anda 1 door V7 for the cleaning of' the Aash-pan 8..V The furnace-proper is provided .with a cylindricallin'ing "9', oflre-ielay, Y which a hopper 1.1 adapted up. 'er-,part of the'furnace,.v

girnacejscovered by ya' 'I Themetallic casing-has apilpe 17', through which the gas esca jes-fror'r'i, t .'b'e conveyed to, "t which -is to bored, an'dra pi mixture of air andsteam into the furnace' in vthe manner used with the Aordinary .gazogenea 9.- aratus j indr'ipai vertical retort 19fforming' the distillingre' tortabo've specified'.-` 'The said retort is lim.

Inthe ic'enter-of the apparatus is estabthe 'said-'element consisting of ,a cy

ited `to the-neighborhood of lthe grato-'6,911-

'little above the'latt'er, and it is fed withnraw e' producer; to

p e 18, 'situated near thegrate 6', serves' for introducing the' lfeeding*maybe effectedin'any suitable ma'ni ner,4 and in the figures. ofthe .drawings .two

forms of devices'adapted for this purpose'are roo,"

shown'7 according asa continuous or animermittent-feeding 1s desired. In'the case of a" continuous feeding the-lower part ofthe re-f tort 19 isconnected with the-'charging-ho'pm5A p er A12 through a suitable. pipe` 29, contain.' mg'a screw 30,' operatedin any suitable manner, as for example, by the 'case `o fkanr'interr'nittent feeding4 t e lower ongation constituted by a cylinder 27,

means ofpulle 34. fIn

part'of theretortli) is'provided' with a piro# w 'ch pipe 31, the ree'endf y' 12 -o which is` clo'sed hermetically .b ymeans" retort '19 "tort 19 `will preferably be of e oep 14, maintained in position-by suitable device 16.4 The pipe 31servesfor|introdueing into the retort 19 .the raw combustible which. is to be distilled. The lower partici the cylinder 2.7 is provided. With-e piston 32, operated from .the outside in any suitable manner, as for example, by means of e lever 33, pushing the combustible introduced through the pipe 31 into the cylinder 27 and into the In thiscasethe bottom o' thererovided with :e damper 28 or the like-suitably actuerted'from the outside. v

The Working ofthe eppereftusI is esfollows: The furnace is iirst'lighted byintroducingz-e coml'iustible l'freed from. lterry lproducts through the hopper '111, `Whiehis :then closedlby the cop 13. -tureof en' end.-steemthrough the Ipipe 18 2o 'maintains theeornbustion.

:filled-.With raw combustible which is to be distilled, -andvbefore the ges is collected 'byllhe admission of themix- The retort 119 is the'pipe 17 it isfnecessory tofWeit'until the bustible. 'the apparatus, -is @ble to normally operate, iendtln's operation is effected-ss follows: Thej Vcombustibleintroduoedlinto the'retort 19 by .temperatuiehosbecome sufficiently high tol produce ithe e'ornplete :distillation of jetlhthe terry ymatters contained inthe seid. com-v 'When this temperature is reached,

onefo'ithe two nieensz-eboveespeoiiiediis there 'distilled'under the ecti'on-'o the 'heet which l the retort 19 receives -roni the very hot :regiontin -which it-isloeete'cl, andes it discharges -a llittle ebeneath ythe loyer 'of vincendeeeent combustible =contained in the lfurn lImee'sthe -vapors arising-from the distillation through this incandescent layer and through products and brought to avery high temyperatu're which covers the aforesaid layer. The seid terry vapors are thus completely reduced, es above specified, before tlieirfentrance into-the chamber 21 of the gezogene. The combustible which hes been distilled during its passage through the retort 19 descends then oi itself into the furnace, being pushed out by fthe `fresh l combustible introduced into thellower pei-tof the retort 1.9,es l

-hereinb'efore explained. Such combustible then xfollows -the course indicated fby the -errows 36 inside the ,'i'urnoce, and it is there completely burned. The-Working -oftheme 'parati-isis the semeiin the cese of thea'p ehaving =its\upperend' e littl-eabove ythe-.gratte .and Ineens for 4forcing; Athe raw feon'ibustible up through the retort-tofthe-furnace.

-Inwitnessuwhereo'f I have hereuntosetiniy hand-in-'presenoe ofltwmwitnesses. 'l

Louis noUiTiLLIEn.

`=Witnesses z HuersoN- C. Goxn, Johns Fievet-LET.

Athe amount-of combustible free from terry4 .65 upwardly xthrough the fbottom thereof end 5 5 i-retusshown in'Figs. Lend 2,'and-the5puri red 

